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productive of both physical and emotional disorders. Physically the digestion is interfered with, and emotionally the sufferer is prone to be unduly affected by the feelings of others, to reproduce them within, himself without the power of self-protection, and to suffer from the incursion of astral entities and forces, which in their turn produce nightmares, sudden panics, and, amongst other disorders, the disease known as claustrophobia. At the present stage of evolution it is this chakram which is the most likely to produce ill-health through distortion of its shape or interference with its proper function. Students are warned against all systems of psychic development which advise meditation on or in this centre. Slightly above the solar plexus we see the spleen centre, with its opening at the back and slightly to the left side of the body. Before vivification its sole function is the absorption, “digestion”, assimilation and distribution of prana. It is the vital receiving and transmitting station of the body. Lowered vitality and nervous debility can frequently be traced to a failure in the functioning or this chakram) When vivified, this centre gives the power of free and self-conscious astral travel. The next above this is the heart chakram, which, in the spiritual neophyte—the advanced man of the diagrams in Chapter IX—is one of the main channels through which flows, the power of the intuitional worlds. This is the Mystic Rose of occult literature, the petals of which open only after the Christ-Child has been born in the heart—or only after powers of intuition, compassion and love have been developed to a certain degree and are finding an expression through physical life. Meditation on this centre is quite safe, and is indeed a valuable means of developing and expressing the above qualities. The throat chakram, when vivified, bestows the faculty of clairaudience; it is in close magnetic relationship with the Muladhara diagram, and it is not unusual to find that disturbances of the creative organs and functions produce corresponding disorders of the throat, which is the higher creative centre. In the centre of the head we find the etheric counterparts of the pituitary and pineal glands have been combined into one glowing centre. The force of Kundalini flows through and round this centre and passes out through the Brahmarandra chakram, which is in the region of the physical anterior fontanelle. Rising from the pituitary body, the Ajna chakram can be seen with its opening between and slightly above the eyes. The vivification of the Ajna